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AUD/NZD Drops Further to Test Hourly 200-SMA The New Zealand dollar manages to keep the upper edge over its OZ counterpart in the Asian trades this Tuesday, as the Aussie finds fresh sellers following the release of dovish minutes of RBA’s April 5th policy meeting...

GBP/USD Capped at Key Resistance Before 1.4346 Trend Line GBP/USD was initially dragged up on the crosses with GBP/JPY making a huge rally as Yen got sold-off. GBP/USD has staged a continued upside effort and headed for a break of key resistance...

Brent Crude: We Still Expect the Barrel at USD46/bl in Q4 Despite Doha- Danske According to Jens Nærvig Pedersen, Senior Analyst at Danske Bank, crude oil will recover during 2016 despite the lack of agreement on a production freeze on Sunday in Doha...

Oil is Falling — So Why does US Keep Pumping? It's called the law of supply and demand. When a commodity costs more to produce than the current market price, producers usually stop producing it. But when it comes to U.S...

FxWirePro: EUR/USD Resumes Upside After Breaking Resistance Level at 1.1300 The EUR/USD pair inched higher on Monday as the pair attracted buyers as weak dollar and falling oil prices increased the demand for euro. The pair initially dipped towards 1.1274 levels in the early European session...

EUR/USD Consolidates Above 1.1300 The euro reached a fresh daily high against the US dollar during the American session at 1.1331, the strongest level since last Wednesday. Afterwards it pulled back modestly but remained above 1.1300...

Lower US Supply to Underpin Oil price Despite Talks Failure LONDON — The failure by oil-rich nations to agree to freeze production weighed on crude prices Monday. But analysts say oil is likely to rise in the longer-term as many companies, particularly in the U.S., scale back output...

Here's the Problem with this Earnings Season There's a problem with earnings this season: stocks are trading at the high end of their trading range and are also expensive...

Doha Failure Exposes Hedge Funds That Were Betting on Oil Freeze (Bloomberg) -- Hedge funds really wanted the Doha oil summit to work. Money managers kept wagers on rising prices near a nine-month high in the days leading up to Sunday’s meeting of oil producers...

EUR/USD: Comfortable Around 1.13 Handle - Scotiabank Analysts at Scotiabank noted that EUR/USD looks relatively stable around the 1.13 line but the EUR traded poorly overall last week, losing ground against every G10 counterpart apart from the CHF...

FxWirePro: Gold Dips Towards Lower Range But Bias Remains Bullish The yellow metal traded higher on Monday, as dollar declined slightly and European shares dipped following no deal between oil producers to cut oil output which sent oil prices down...

USD/JPY: Capped at 100 Hr SMA on Strong Recovery USD/JPY has rallied as markets recover and some after the Doha event that failed to find a concord between oil ministers in OPEC and non-OPEC nations meeting over the weekend...

AUD/USD's Huge Daily Reversal to Fresh 2016 Highs AUD/USD has followed suit of the recovery in oil and has closed and exceeded the bearish opening gap. Moreover, the price has rallied to fresh highs for 2016, scoring 07760 and up +0.40% on the session and from lows of 0.7631...

USD/CHF Breaks Short-Term Range and Falls Toward 0.9620 USD/CHF started the week moving within the range of the previous days, between 0.9650 and 0.9680. Initially, it rose to test the upper limit but then, a decline of the US dollar across the board pushed the pair to the downside...

Brazil: Markets have Gotten Overly Optimistic - BBH Analysts from Brown Brother Harriman, warned again investor about being overly bullish about the growing likelihood of a new government...

USD/JPY: The Yen has Grown Due to the Collapse in the Meeting in Doha During today’s Asian session the Yen has traded upward against the other currencies due to the negative result of the meeting in Doha...

EUR/GBP: Important Support in the 0.7925 - 0.7880 Region - Lloyds Analysts from Lloyds Bank, a break below 0.7925 - 0.7880 would support further EUR underperformance. Key Quotes: “The cross has pulled back and is holding important support in the 0.7925-0.7880 region...